At 74 years old, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is the oldest major-party candidate in the 2016 field. But his rise in the polls this summer was powered by younger voters. Those voters aren’t likely to be a strong enough force to propel him to the nomination, but their support could […] Read more »
Young people far more liberal on immigrant rights than most GOP presidential candidates
Young people overwhelmingly support extending rights to undocumented immigrants, putting them out of step with most Republican presidential candidates, according to the first installment of Fusion’s Issues Poll, which will survey approximately 1,000 people between the ages of 18 and 35 regularly ahead of next year’s election. CONT. Jorge Rivas, […] Read more »
Young people are far more likely to die by guns than in cars
… Gun deaths, by homicide and suicide, are pretty common in the U.S. According to the Centers for Disease Control, 33,636 Americans died by firearm in 2013 — about one person every 15 minutes. And they disproportionately happen to young people. … David Hemenway, a professor of public health at […] Read more »
Most Millennials Resist the ‘Millennial’ Label
Millennials will soon become the nation’s largest living generation. They already have surpassed Generation X to make up the largest share of the U.S. workforce. Despite the size and influence of the Millennial generation, however, most of those in this age cohort do not identify with the term “Millennial.” Just […] Read more »
What’s Whitewater? These voters know less than you think about Hillary Clinton
Democratic pollster Celinda Lake has been asking voters how much they trust Hillary Rodham Clinton for more than two decades. So when she recently asked a group of 10 young people about the issue, her questions naturally turned to Whitewater, the Arkansas land deal turned White House scandal of the […] Read more »
Marco Rubio Makes a Move Out of the Past
… With opinion divided over President Obama’s impact on both the nation’s economy and its security, the Democrats’ most potent weapon in the 2016 election remains the sense that they are more connected than the GOP to the nation’s evolving cultural and demographic dynamics. As last week’s GOP first- and […] Read more »